The New Republic

and Devashree Saha One reason the U.S. clean economy is struggling to get big fast, as we note in our upcoming report “Sizing the Clean Economy,” is the absence of sufficient, affordable capital with the right tolerance for risk to help scale up new technologies. One response to such problems is the creation of “green banks”—emerging technology deployment finance entities aimed at lowering the cost of capital for innovative projects. And so Connecticut has acted. READ MORE >>

With roughly 128,000 fossil fuel economy jobs in recent Census records, metropolitan Houston has the nation’s largest regional workforce in the fossil fuels industries. Yet, it is becoming a leader in the clean economy. READ MORE >>

The current edition of Brookings’ MetroMonitor shows that government job growth is associated with the economic performance of America’s metropolitan areas since the beginning of the recession. Among the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, the 20 that have done the best since the recession started (taking into account recovery of jobs, output, unemployment rates, and house prices) are Augusta, Austin, Boston,   Buffalo, Columbus, Dallas, El Paso, Honolulu, Jackson, Knoxville, Little Rock, Madison, McAllen, Nashville, Oklahoma City READ MORE >>

with Louis Liss When it comes to design, there’s no question that Apple knows how to impress. READ MORE >>

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If you’re like my family, you have a DVR in your house. Those wonderful little boxes of commercial-skipping, season-passing, "I’ll watch 'The Killing' when I want" goodness. Well, it turns out those magical little boxes are wreaking havoc on our disposable income. READ MORE >>

Amid growing concerns over Greek debt and the probability of another economic slowdown, the administr READ MORE >>

Last week, Republican presidential candidate and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty set a “big, positive goal” of 5 percent annual economic growth for a decade. Donald Marron points out that the nation as a whole hasn’t achieved this goal since the 1958-1968 decade and explains why it’s highly unlikely to do so READ MORE >>

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